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Originally Posted by daswig
I think you should reread what I wrote. I said that I hadn't met any french nationals that I like, but caveated it with the possibility that there are french people I would like, I just hadn't met them.
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"...but as for the actual French? Ask me again after they've figured out deodorant/anti-perspirant."
As I said, I'll leave everyone to draw their own conclusions.
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OK, now I'm amused.  That definition that you're using means that "American" is a RACE. That means people who don't like all Americans are racist, right?
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If I said I don't like all Americans, that they are stupid, or smell or are inferior, then yes that would be racist.
The same as if I said it about all Mexicans. Or Italians. Or Irish.
Race is not a term that is that popular any more because of its history in Social Darwinianism, Malthusianism etc. But the term racist is derived from the same root and is used to describe such predjudice as evidenced above.
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In the law, there's a thing called an "absurd result". You just tumbled into one by declaring french people to be a "race". "French" is a nationality, not a race.
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If you say so, it must be true.
Mr Mephisto